Love You, Love You Not. Kion x Reader (remake, SLOWBURN)

Ouch

WARNING: Lots and lots of not fun stuff. I will have another warning near where it is.

But what could you do? You were against three- or possibly four, if there was a hyena somewhere you couldn't see. Nobody was here to help you this time. It was up to you to recognize the young zebra.

The calf seemed to have realized what was going on and stepped back in fear. You felt your heart clench inside your chest as the calf's facial expression contorted into terror. It had figured out what would happen to it. The zebra would probably be Mia's age if it were human, the thought making anger bubble in your chest. 

No, you weren't strong. 

No, you weren't super smart.

You should probably be fearing for your own safety right now, but there was one thing you were sure about:

You were going to kick that hyena's butt and save that zebra.

"Hey, Mowhawk!" 

Seriously, Y/N? Mowhawk isn't an insult. 

As you pushed yourself up from the grass and they turned to you, eyes wide, you knew you'd done a stupid.

Janja exhaled aloud, seemingly in relief. "You're not The Lion Guard, you're just that brat from yesterday. What do you want?"

You tensed your body, flexing your claws in anticipation. You'd gotten their attention off the zebra, now you just needed to get it to run away.

"Um, you're ugly!" 

You mentally face-palmed. You would've said 'Let go of the Zebra', but that would've gotten their attention on making sure the zebra didn't run away. But really, was this all you could come up with?

"Excuse me?!" Janja growled, "You'll pay for that. You've already disrupted me once, but now you insult my beauty!" All it took was a tail-flick and the other two hyenas were closing in on you.

Despite being about to be attacked, you were dumb-founded. Janja actually got insulted? And he also said 'my beauty?' You wanted to laugh.  

Then an unintentional snort escaped you. 

Dammit Y/N, stop giving yourself more reason to be killed!

Janja growled and advanced on you, hackles rising. "Why are you laughing?!"

Unable to stop a smile breaking, you took a step back and then sent a side glance mentally screaming 'GET OUT OF HERE, KID!' at the zebra. It took your advice. Luckily, none of the hyenas noticed as they were still insulted at your grade-school level insult. 

The buff hyena bared his fangs, and you noticed him frothing at the mouth slightly. He looked hungry. You gulped but still kept smiling like the idiot you were.

"You don't insult the boss like this! Why are you laughing?" He pressed.

"You..." you snickered, "You sounded like a kindergartener." 

Cheezi, the slimmer hyena, tilted his head in confusion. "Janja, what does kindergartener mean?"

And this was when Y/N knew she'd done an oopsy.

There was a slight pause as Janja tried to think about it. You saw this as an opportunity, and after praying to every single battle shonen anime protagonist that they would grant you their impossible strength and bravery, you quickly turned and started sprinting the opposite direction of both the Pridelands and the young zebra.

Yes, you could have tried fighting him, but you'd be honest; you were terrified. You would not try to go up against three strong hyenas without any training. Unless you had to. As you bolted, fear squeezed your heart, pumping adrenaline throughout your body. You glanced behind.